Installation guide

33.14 . Configuring LUN Persist ence
This section covers how to implement LUN persistence in guests and on the host machine with and
without multipath.
Imp lemen t in g LUN persist en ce wit h o u t mu lt ip at h
If your system is not using multipath, you can use udev to implement LUN persistence. Before
implementing LUN persistence in your system, ensure that you acquire the proper UUIDs. Once you
acquire these, you can configure LUN persistence by editing the scsi_id file that resides in the
/etc directory. Once you have this file open in a text editor, you must comment out this line:
# options=-b
Then replace it with this parameter:
# options=-g
This tells udev to monitor all system SCSI devices for returning UUIDs. To determine the system
UUID s, use the scsi_id command:
# scsi_id -g -s /block/sdc
*3600a0b80001327510000015427b625e*
The long string of characters in the output is the UUID. The UUID does not change when you add a
new device to your system. Acquire the UUID for each device in order to create rules for the devices.
To create new device rules, edit the 20-names.rules file in the /etc/udev/rules.d directory.
The device naming rules follow this format:
# KERNEL="sd*", BUS="scsi", PROGRAM="sbin/scsi_id", RESULT="UUID",
NAME="devicename"
Replace your existing UUID and devicename with the above UUID retrieved entry. The rule should
resemble the following:
KERNEL="sd*", BUS="scsi", PROGRAM="sbin/scsi_id",
RESULT="3600a0b80001327510000015427b625e", NAME="mydevicename"
This enables all devices that match the /dev/sd* pattern to inspect the given UUID. When it finds a
matching device, it creates a device node called /dev/devicename. For this example, the device
node is /dev/mydevice . Finally, append the /etc/rc.local file with this line:
/sbin/start_udev
Imp lemen t in g LUN persist en ce wit h mult ip at h
To implement LUN persistence in a multipath environment, you must define the alias names for the
multipath devices. For this example, you must define four device aliases by editing the
multipath.conf file that resides in the /etc/ directory:
multipath {
wwid 3600a0b80001327510000015427b625e
alias oramp1
}
multipath {
wwid 3600a0b80001327510000015427b6
alias oramp2
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